Here Come the Huggetts
1948 British film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Here Come the Huggetts is a 1948 British comedy film, the first of the Huggetts series, about a working class English family. All three films in the series were directed by Ken Annakin and released by Gainsborough Pictures.[2]
Here Come the Huggetts | |
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Directed by | Ken Annakin |
Written by | Muriel Box Sydney Box Peter Rogers Denis Constanduros Mabel Constanduros |
Produced by | Betty E. Box |
Starring | Jack Warner Kathleen Harrison Jane Hylton Susan Shaw Petula Clark |
Cinematography | Reginald H. Wyer |
Edited by | Gordon Hales |
Music by | Antony Hopkins |
Production company | |
Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
Release date | 24 November 1948 |
Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £100,000[1] |
Box office | £127,000[1] |
Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison head the cast as factory worker Joe Huggett and his wife Ethel, with Petula Clark, Jane Hylton and Susan Shaw as their young daughters (all with the same first names as the actresses portraying them) and Amy Veness as their opinionated grandmother. Diana Dors had an early role.[3]
Joe and Ethel had been introduced a year earlier in the film Holiday Camp and there would be two sequels, Vote for Huggett and The Huggetts Abroad (both 1949).